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Definition of Common reed

1. Noun. Tall North American reed having relative wide leaves and large plumelike panicles; widely distributed in moist areas; used for mats, screens and arrow shafts.

Definition of Common reed

1. Noun. ''Phragmites australis'', a monoculture reed grass. ¹

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Literary usage of Common reed

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1. Handbook of Foliage and Foreground Drawing by George Barnard (1884)
"THE common reed. colour is imitated by the use of lakes or madders and burnt ... THE common reed. PHRAGMITES COMMUNIS. AMONG foreground plants scarcely one ..."

2. Fire Effects Information System: User’s Guide by William C. Fischer, Melanie Miller, Cameron M. Johnston, Jane K. Smith (1998)
"Above the dwarf smooth cordgrass zone, common reed, saltmeadow cordgrass, ... common reed forms pure or mixed stands, saltmeadow cordgrass forms nearly pure ..."

3. The Entomologist's Monthly Magazine by Nathaniel Lloyd and Company (1895)
"94, he says, " Those who walk along the bank of stream where the common reed, Arundo phragmites, is growing, ca hardly fail to notice in April or the ..."

4. A Monograph on the British Grasses / by George Graves by George Graves (1822)
"But few plants are more widely diffused than the common reed, being found in almost every part of Europe, and the temperate parts of Asia and America. ..."

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